I like it a lot more than Icelandic, and there are a lot more resources for it than Icelandic, and with Norwegian being my favorite language, I want to know what it used to be like, and everyone knows the vikings (which spoke it) are super awesome.

If anyone wants, I can link to everything I have for it. Also, there's vast online dictionaries and reading material, so you can become fluent in it for free if you want to.

Is Old Norse extinct? It sounds like it's extinct. It's kind of weird if there are more material for Old Norse than Icelandic considering the former is the dead language and the latter is the living language.

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dtp883 wrote:Is Old Norse extinct? It sounds like it's extinct. It's kind of weird if there are more material for Old Norse than Icelandic considering the former is the dead language and the latter is the living language.

Old Norse is extinct, like Latin. It didn't die off (like, say Manx or Cornish) however it evolved into Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Faroese, and Icelandic.

dtp883 wrote:Is Old Norse extinct? It sounds like it's extinct. It's kind of weird if there are more material for Old Norse than Icelandic considering the former is the dead language and the latter is the living language.

Consider how much material there is for Latin compared to lesser-known Romance languages such as Romansh, Sardinian, or even Catalan (which has twenty times the number of active speakers as Icelandic). Rumanian has over twenty million speakers and is the sole official language of an EU country, yet it's harder to find works on Rumanian than on Latin in every single EU language but Rumanian!